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Literally cancelled after half an episode. Must be some kind of record tbh.
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holy shit
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Heard of it but never seen it and it sounds hilarious. Basically the same thing happened to God The Devil and Bob, an erican cartoon canceled after one episode cause of butthurt Christians

Still love the phone gag.

"Hi, Hitler here. No, Bob Hitler, who do you think?"
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It's a fun idea but the show itself was meh

Well the episode I saw was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw" data-time="
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I looked it up and watched an episode. All the writing is one-note nazi-based jokes. The show failed because it's redundant.

It's a great idea for a 5-10 minute sketch, but not a whole show.
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Duncanwii posted...

Literally cancelled after half an episode. Must be some kind of record tbh.

No it had a whole episode.

The one that was cancelled after half an episode was "Turn-on"
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Duncanwii posted...

Literally cancelled after half an episode. Must be some kind of record tbh.

No it had a whole episode.

The one that was cancelled after half an episode was "Turn-on"

Wasn't there another show too, an Austrlian one?
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*Australian

It was in the 1980s I believe, like Naughtiest Videos?
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fenderbender321 posted...

It's so ridiculous to me that people can find comedy to be tasteless or offensive.

Comedy is laughter. That is all. You either laugh, which is a great experience. Or you don't, which is neutral. There is nothing negative about comedy at all.

When you research this show, that's all anybody says. "Considered offensive and tasteless". It's like...gee whiz, sorry for trying to get people to laugh. What a shitty thing I've done.

Should racial stereotypes be considered offensive if the goal is laughter?
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Zikten posted...

Heard of it but never seen it and it sounds hilarious. Basically the same thing happened to God The Devil and Bob, an erican cartoon canceled after one episode cause of butthurt Christians

I recall watching more than one episode. Loved that show.
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fenderbender321 posted...

YoshitoKikuchi posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

It's so ridiculous to me that people can find comedy to be tasteless or offensive.

Comedy is laughter. That is all. You either laugh, which is a great experience. Or you don't, which is neutral. There is nothing negative about comedy at all.

When you research this show, that's all anybody says. "Considered offensive and tasteless". It's like...gee whiz, sorry for trying to get people to laugh. What a shitty thing I've done.

Should racial stereotypes be considered offensive if the goal is laughter?

If the goal is laughter, then the laughter is rooted in irony or some sort of "laugh at the dumb character" type of humor, which if one understand these concepts should realize that nobody is laughing because racism in and of itself is funny.

Complete bullshit
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Why did a British sitcom about German people have American accents?
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fenderbender321 posted...

Blue_Inigo posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

YoshitoKikuchi posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

It's so ridiculous to me that people can find comedy to be tasteless or offensive.

Comedy is laughter. That is all. You either laugh, which is a great experience. Or you don't, which is neutral. There is nothing negative about comedy at all.

When you research this show, that's all anybody says. "Considered offensive and tasteless". It's like...gee whiz, sorry for trying to get people to laugh. What a shitty thing I've done.

Should racial stereotypes be considered offensive if the goal is laughter?

If the goal is laughter, then the laughter is rooted in irony or some sort of "laugh at the dumb character" type of humor, which if one understand these concepts should realize that nobody is laughing because racism in and of itself is funny.

Complete bullshit

It's 100% true whether you choose to believe it or not. Seriously.

Says the dude who defends calling black people slurs. I shouldnt be surprised you think humor cant be racist
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fenderbender321 posted...

It's so ridiculous to me that people can find comedy to be tasteless or offensive.

Comedy is laughter. That is all. You either laugh, which is a great experience. Or you don't, which is neutral. There is nothing negative about comedy at all.

When you research this show, that's all anybody says. "Considered offensive and tasteless". It's like...gee whiz, sorry for trying to get people to laugh. What a shitty thing I've done.

Sometimes being offensive and tasteless is where a joke derives its comedy. And sometimes it's the reason a joke isn't funny too. The idea that something can't be tasteless just because it's a joke makes no sense
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Zikten posted...

Heard of it but never seen it and it sounds hilarious. Basically the same thing happened to God The Devil and Bob, an erican cartoon canceled after one episode cause of butthurt Christians

That lasted three episodes on NBC. But it also had awful ratings, so I think its cancellation was imminent.
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VipaGTS posted...

Why did a British sitcom about German people have American accents?

it was supposed to be a parody of American "odd couple"-style sitcoms. after all, what's wackier than Adolf and Eva living next door to the Goldsteins?

Anteaterking posted...

Zikten posted...

Heard of it but never seen it and it sounds hilarious. Basically the same thing happened to God The Devil and Bob, an erican cartoon canceled after one episode cause of butthurt Christians

That lasted three episodes on NBC. But it also had awful ratings, so I think its cancellation was imminent.

It's a shame nobody was watching it. It's a great example of a mature adult animated series that didn't need to resort to edgy, shock humor to be good.
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offensive humor is all about context. Blazing Saddles? hilarious. some yokel doing open mic night at the local KKK hangout? ehhhhhhh

anyway, some other poster said it best: this would have worked far better as part of a sketch show

fenderbender321 posted...

Comedy is laughter. That is all. You either laugh, which is a great experience. Or you don't, which is neutral.

Have you ever watched amateur stand up? Not laughing isn't necessarily a neutral experience.
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fenderbender321 posted...

If by "tasteless" you mean unfunny, sure. But if tasteless to you implies being mean or rude or offensive, then I disagree. A joke is designed to get people to laugh. In order to argue that a joke attempt can be offensive, you must first argue why it's offensive to try and get people to laugh. And since you can't do that, you lose.

Dead baby jokes were pretty popular for awhile, with the whole point being that they are only funny because of how unapologetically tasteless they are. The jokes themselves were not funny.
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fenderbender321 posted...

Anteaterking posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

Comedy is laughter. That is all. You either laugh, which is a great experience. Or you don't, which is neutral.

Have you ever watched amateur stand up? Not laughing isn't necessarily a neutral experience.

I've watched it tons of times. I'm actually a professional judge and critic.

Now thats a joke. There's nothing professional about you.
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fenderbender321 posted...

Okay. But that really doesn't go against anything I'm saying.

You're saying jokes can't be offensive or tasteless and I don't believe that's true. Aside from jokes that are specifically designed to be both offensive and tasteless, there are also jokes that derive their humor from being racist and aren't just trying to be wacky or whatever. I'd rather not try to skirt the rules by trying to post examples.
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I've never heard of this or the satellite channel it was hosted on. Interestingly, it seems the satellite company would end up merging with Sky to form BSkyB in the UK.
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fenderbender321 posted...

I have never seen an example of a joke being derived from actual racism. I have seen plenty of jokes that are related to the concept of racism, but never actual outright racism as an attempt at humor.

If you are trying to make people laugh, then you aren't being racist.

"I've never seen it therefore it doesn't exist" is a poor argument

And news flash, racist people laugh at racist jokes
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fenderbender321 posted...

^ The problem, I think, is that you don't know what actual racism is. Racism is something mean and nasty. You can't be attempting to make a joke while also being mean and nasty at the exact same time. It's like trying to be in both Miami and New York at the same time. It's impossible.

So you literally can not wrap your head around the concept of racist jokes
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Kitt posted...

Anteaterking posted...

Zikten posted...

Heard of it but never seen it and it sounds hilarious. Basically the same thing happened to God The Devil and Bob, an erican cartoon canceled after one episode cause of butthurt Christians

That lasted three episodes on NBC. But it also had awful ratings, so I think its cancellation was imminent.

It's a shame nobody was watching it. It's a great example of a mature adult animated series that didn't need to resort to edgy, shock humor to be good.

And it taught Christian values. The show actually was in the Christian spirit but Christians didn't pay attention to the plot so they didn't see it. They just saw Satan being friends with God and freaked out

Years later they played the entire season adult swim and every episode has some kind of moral lesson that Jesus would be proud of

fenderbender321 posted...

I can wrap my head around why people might mistake a joke for being racist, sure.

So your official stance here is that racist jokes simply don't exist

Just lol
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UnfairRepresent posted...

It's a fun idea but the show itself was meh

Well the episode I saw was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw" data-time="

The ran it right after Dad's Army, huh?

fenderbender321 posted...

Racism is something mean and nasty. You can't be attempting to make a joke while also being mean and nasty at the exact same time.

Have you never made a joke at someone else's expense?
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

It's so ridiculous to me that people can find comedy to be tasteless or offensive.

Comedy is laughter. That is all. You either laugh, which is a great experience. Or you don't, which is neutral. There is nothing negative about comedy at all.

When you research this show, that's all anybody says. "Considered offensive and tasteless". It's like...gee whiz, sorry for trying to get people to laugh. What a shitty thing I've done.

Should racial stereotypes be considered offensive if the goal is laughter?

Sometimes racial stereotypes are funny.
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fenderbender321 posted...

^ The problem, I think, is that you don't know what actual racism is. Racism is something mean and nasty. You can't be attempting to make a joke while also being mean and nasty at the exact same time. It's like trying to be in both Miami and New York at the same time. It's impossible.

Not all racism is mean and nasty. Anecdotal example, my grandmother had some racist beliefs, like that asians were all really good at math. But she also literally marched for civil rights when she was a younger woman and we got in an argument at some point because she thought deliberately offensive remarks, like racial slurs, should be illegal to say and I thought language, even offensive language, should not be punished by the law.

Also, you absolutely can tell mean-spirited jokes.
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coinstarcad posted...

I looked it up and watched an episode. All the writing is one-note nazi-based jokes. The show failed because it's redundant.

Yet That's My Bush lasted for around eight episodes.
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So the show that got cancelled after half an episode, did it literally go to commercial and not come back on? How does that even happen?
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fenderbender321 posted...

An expense does not occur when somebody makes a joke about you or in reference to you.

lol?
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